The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-07-21

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Sinclair, Winona; G. w. Benedict, C. p
Carpenter, Pennington.
Delegates to the national editorial con.
vention at Denver in September next: B.
B. Herbert, Capt. Castle, T. N. Newson,
Alvah Eastman, William Kinds, G. w
Benedict, Fl. g. Day, Capt. Moifett. A. n.
Dare, 81. 9. Bassford, J. T. Heatwole, ".
II. Mitchell, D. p. r. Strong, &c. Wise.
Alternates-L Osborne, D. g. Light.
wing Todd, A. p. Miller, Max Nichols, II.
II. s.. Paswell. j. g. Hamlin, II. Murphy,
e. W. Randall. L. s. Frost. D. Ramaley,
r. G. Mitchell, q. H. Dearth.
Jake Sharp, the Great Boodler Gets Four Years.
In New York. the great bride giver was
sentenced to four years in prison and a
fine OF five thousand dollars. Judge Bar.
rett, in p~ronouncing sentence, said:
He had never performed so delicate q
task in his whole professional career. He
had received many letters from many peo-
pie. pleading mercy and otherwise, but a
court was not appointed to be merciful
any more than was dictated by the laws Of
justice. Tho defendant herein, asking for
mercy, give nothing as a plea for Glenn
OF the case he certainly is entitled to none.
1t is absurd to state that he was not guilty
Of giving the brides, as he was unmistaka.
bly, tho leader of the whole affair. Wehave
not here, as in the case Of the aldermen,
any attempt to prove the defendant sgood
character. The crime itself was ar enor
nous one-the raising OF hall g. million ol
dollars to corrupt half a legislature.
Judge Barrett reviewed the corrupt action
OF the defendant in forming a bogus co,n.
pany to contract with the Seventh Avenue
railway, OF which he was a director,
and alluded to the defendants
ceny, for which he could nave been indict.
ed just as well us for bribery. What is
there to excite pity or mercy except the
age and ill health of the prisoner and the
mourning condition Of his family? With
over 81, 900, 600 in his pocket he clamors
for mercy without Offering to pay back a
penny OF the amount stolen, SO that,
should he die in prison, his family has q
vast fortune to fall back upon. The legis'
lature does not allow us to go below the
minimum penalty in such a grave offense
considered, and the judgment of this court
is that the prisoner be confined four years
at hard labor and that he pay u fine oil
$4,000.
Miss Winnaretta Singer, daughter Of the
American sewing machine inventor, has
81, SOC, 900 in her own right, and is to
marry Prince do Scey.M ontbellard. Her
mother married q duke after Isaac Singers
death. IT,.
Railroad workmen and Youngs town, O.,
police have O pitched battle for contest oil
q railroad track.
E~x-Attorney General MacVeagh and
family will spend the summer in England.
Sir John Pope Henessey has been rein.
stated as governor general OF Mauritus.
A Hamburg correspondent telegraphs
that q m is current that Herr Miguel
is likely to succeed Bismarck as minister
OF commerce.
At Montreal, McDougal, Logic & Co.,
oil and paint manufacturers, have failed.
Direct liabilities, $3.50, 600.
Secretary Lamar has sustained the com
missioner in his refusal to make for Hol.
land n survey of a dry lake bed in sec.
tions 10 and 80, township As, range 80.
fourth principal meridian, Minnesota.
The secretary says: 1t is the policy OF the
department since 1877 to refuse to survey
meandered lake beds. Beside, he is not
satisfied that the lake bed does not inure
to the holders OF the adjoining tract by the
principle OF accretion.
A special from Lexington, Miss, to the N.
O. P~icayune, says: R. B. Chatham, indie
pendent and Republican candidate for the
legislature, shot and killed John S. Har-
kins, associate editor Of the Lexington
Bulletin. Harkins' father is one OF the
Democratic nominees for the legislature.
Chatham and young Harkins had bean
discussing politics and drinking bser freely
during the day up to the time the dispute
arose.
The comptroller OF the currency author
lied the Third National Bank OF Piqua,
O.. to begin business with a capital Of
500, 900.
The costoms receipts during the fiscal
year just closed were $l45, 96S, 5SS, de-
rived from $500, 1913, 745 imported goods.
That resents average taxation on imports
OF 4s per cent.
Joseph G. Kennedy, once superintendent
Of the sencus, is murdered In Washington,
Secretary Lamar's' daughter Jeannie is
going to marry her cousin, w. H. Lamar,
q young lawyer OF Washington.
Even Mr.. Manning's large estimate of in
ternal revenue for the fiscal year just
closed fell short of the reality. His cal
culatlon was an increase Of $1S. 500. 900.
The actual increase was $34, 941, 1865
The customs revenue increased $24, 500,
900, or 1875 per cent. and internal reve-
nue. increased 2 per cent, while the
amount received in excess of current ex.
penditures was $102, 1874, 703. Sc.
u. s. Grant post, No. 1927, G. A.. R.,S oil
Brooklyn has passed resolutions denounc'
insults to the living and ISLANDERS upon
our dead. The resolutions also declare
that the Grand Army men appeal to the
loyal press OF the country without regard
to partisan utilization.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
say that from figures given out Lately by
Powderly it is ascertained that the men,
bership of the order Of the Knights oil
Labor has fallen from 1000, 900 to less
than 600, 900 within the last fourteen
months. The loss has been steady and on
the increase.
The inspector who had investigated the
accounts OF William Cannon, postmaster
at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Oak, who late.
ly committed suicide, found that by false
returns OF Cancelled stamps Cannon had
overdrawn in salary $5,O55. The post.
master general, under the act Of June II,
1875, made an order requesting the sixth
auditor to readiust the compensation ol
Cannon. The p~ostoffice department says
that it is making q thorough Investigation
OF the acts OF postmasters all over the
country. It intimates that there are 9th.
er cases similar to that OF Cannon.
Sir Wilfred Lawson presided over tho meet
ing OF the international arbitration as
ISOLATION in London. The secretary's re-
port referred at length to the cooperation
of q similar association in America and
expressed q hope for the formation OF q
joint commission to consider the advisable
ity Of creating an Anglo American arbitra
ton tribunal. David Dudley. Field, in
moving approval VI a petition to parlia
ment in favor OF the creation oil such Q
tribunal, expressed hearty sympathy with
the cause.